Seattle Restaurants Rally Around Immigration Rights Issue

More than 100 restaurants, bars, cafes and popups are participating in a weekend-long Feb. 7-9 fundraising effort aimed at supporting immigration rights initiatives and organizations. Here’s a list of where to dine, a lineup that reads like the who’s who on the city’s culinary landscape.

Showing support

The spirited effort to support immigration rights in light of the current administration’s current mass deportations quickly picked up steam when members of the restaurant community began to brainstorm.

“It came together in a week, which was pretty fast,” said Eric Tanaka from Tom Douglas Restaurants. “I think everyone wanted to get on board. It was an easy yes.”

The effort was announced over social media on Monday afternoon and the response so far has been positive. “This is why we love being part of this community, especially when it comes to people we work with, recognizing what they mean to restaurants, as key members of the team, they’re like family.”

Each restaurant is handling the weekend writing its own script, whether that means offering specials or donating a portion of the sales. The Northwest Immigrants Rights Project is the organization identified as the primary beneficiary but each restaurant makes the call if they have another organization they plan to focus on.

Here’s the go-to list, in alphabetical order:

Agua Verde Cafe
Atoma
Ba Bar, All Locations
Backyard Bagel
Barnacle
Bateau
Beast & Cleaver
Ben’s Bread
Boat Bar
Bonito Café y Mercadito
Bruciato
Burien Press
Cafe Flora
Cafe Hitchcock Seattle
Cafe Hitchcock, All Locations
Cafe Lago
Cafe Lolo @ Three Sacks Full
Cafe Munir
Carlile Room
Ciudad
Communion R&B
Cookie’s Country Chicken
Copine
Coyle’s Bakeshop
Dahlia Bakery
Dark Room
Deep Dive
Deep Sea Sugar & Salt
Driftwood
Flora Bakehouse
Friday Afternoon Tea
General Porpoise Doughnuts & Coffee
Gracia
Half Shell
Hamdi
Hello Robin
Homer
Jan Parker Cookery
Kamp Social House
La Dive
Layers Green Lake
Liberty Bar
Life On Mars
Lil Woody’s
Lioness
Local Tide
Lockspot Cafe
Lola
Lottie’s Lounge
Lupe’s Situ Tacos
Lupo
Maddy’s Bakeshop
Mainstay Provisions
Mamnoon, All Locations
Marination
Matt’s in the Market
mbar
Mezzanotte
Milk Drunk
Mioposto, All Locations
Molly’s Bottle Shop
Monsoon, All Locations
Moonshot Coffee
Mulleady’s Irish Pub
Neb
Off Alley
Oliver’s Twist
Other Coast Cafe
Outsider BBQ & Beer Garden
Oxbow
Oyster Cellar
Palace Kitchen
Pan de La Selva
Pancita
Patisserie De Zee
Pidgin Cooperative
Rachel’s Bagels and Burritos, both locations
Radiator Whiskey
Rangoon Bistro
Ray’s Boathouse
Rice, Beans & Happiness
Rich Rich
Rojo’s Mexican Food
Rumba
Saint Bread
Sea Wolf Bakers
Seabird
Seasmith
Seatown FishFry
Serious Pie
Sisters and Brothers
Skål Beer Hall
Slim Goody
Sophon
Spice Waala, All Locations
Stevie’s Famous, both locations
Sugar Witch PDX (and various Portland pastry chefs)
Sweet Alchemy Ice Creamery
Temple Pastries
Terra Plata
The Ballard Cut
The Cottage, Community Bakery
The Ink Drinker
The Pine Box
The Whale Wins
The White Swan Public House
Tivoli
TOASTED. Bagels & Coffee
Walrus & the Carpenter
Westman’s Bagel & Coffee
Westward
Willmotts Ghost
Windy City Pie
Zylberschtein’s

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